as in maid
a female domestic servant
they hired a housekeeper to help their aging parents live at home
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Recent Examples of housekeeper
The best bit for the housekeepers?
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Mattias Goldmann, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Last year, while our house was being vacuumed by a housekeeper, Butch bit her on her calf.
—Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
Joseph is the son of Arnold Schwarzenegger and his housekeeper, Mildred Baena, and was born in 1998.
—Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 9 Sep. 2025
Rounding out the unhappy home — two times a week, anyway — is Rina (Monika Frajczyk), an undocumented Macedonian housekeeper who’s been half-persuaded and half-threatened by Chris into taking the job despite her horror at seeing Tommy trapped in the basement.
—Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
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Mattias Goldmann, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Last year, while our house was being vacuumed by a housekeeper, Butch bit her on her calf.
—Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
Joseph is the son of Arnold Schwarzenegger and his housekeeper, Mildred Baena, and was born in 1998.
—Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 9 Sep. 2025
Rounding out the unhappy home — two times a week, anyway — is Rina (Monika Frajczyk), an undocumented Macedonian housekeeper who’s been half-persuaded and half-threatened by Chris into taking the job despite her horror at seeing Tommy trapped in the basement.
—Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for housekeeper
maid
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The hit series also starred Ethan Suplee as Earl's younger brother Randy Hickey, Jaime Pressly as Earl's ex-wife Joy Turner, Nadine Velazquez as the motel maid Catalina Aruca and Eddie Steeples as Joy's second husband Darnell Turner.—
Caroline Blair,
PEOPLE,
20 Sep. 2025
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One of her central, lifelong relationships was with a Moroccan woman named Cherifa, who became her maid and, after Jane suffered a stroke, was accused by Paul and their friends of casting a love spell that had gone violently wrong.—
Nicole Flattery,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
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“Housekeeper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/housekeeper. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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